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Based on my past experience with Elsevier, I would not be too hopeful. :(

Having had my own co-founded company gone bankrupt, I have to agree with you.

This would only be the case if every research job was in a university and in tenure track, which is definitely not the case.

Many research positions are in industry, or are postdocs or non-tenure track. Besides the fact that many countries don't have anything similar to tenure.

Also, not everybody on tenure track reaches it.

Academic work year and no crazy hours? Sorry, but you clearly don't work with research.

Working all days of the week is incredibly common.

And, unfortunately, crunch time specially near major conference deadlines is almost becoming the norm. Of course, the focus on publication is another problem related to that.

Unfortunately the mobile versions renders broken in the iPad. :-/

Now I'll have to find a regular computer ASAP.

Having being involved in efforts to standardize AI components roughly 10 years ago I can say that, even for somewhat delimited domains, this is not a trivial goal.

I really hope their effort can provide a strong enough push, even if not like the one that go us the Internet. Good luck!

Very interesting findings. There is still so much we don't know about the oceans...

But I guess this kind of news can be a show stopper for the recent rise in interest for exploring extraction of minerals from the sea floor.

I'm kind of torn between being glad that sea floor wildlife may not be destroyed after all; and sad for the boom in underwater tech that may never happen. :-/

Well, I know this is not the typical use case, but the need I had for it was to perform some experiments on the quality of recommender systems suggestions.

In this case, as the experiments involved people and the intend was to publish the results, the "workers" had to be anonymous.

Well, I know it's anecdotal, but this is not how it works for me. Music I enjoy, with lyrics, works pretty well.

I guess he meant those guys were already "Yodas" way before 1980 (when the character first appeared in The Empire Strikes Back).

Or, of course, he could be mistaken by one whole year. :)

Very entertaining read. And the lessons he mentions from the 80s still mostly apply.

But the one that caught my eye was point #4: Knowing how to read and understand source code is a valuable skill.

I definitely agree. Nonetheless, having worked in four different countries, it always surprises me to meet so many people that are not actually any good at it working as programmers/developers/software engineers! :-/

HN guide: no.

Seriously, I do think Twitter is a great company, but one tenth of Amazon? The same as Nokia? Not to mention comparisons to non-tech companies...

I really don't get these valuations.

The sidenotes were too narrow? ;)

Critical thinking is not necessarily analytical thinking.

One can be deeply analytical and yet not really critical. For example, some people that know all details of a religious text and can argue its points very well, while not paying attention to its limitations/inconsistencies or influences.

Not trying to bash religious people, just giving a common example.

RIP Ray. :(

People can say what they want, but the Dalek design was both pragmatic and cool, making it the iconic representation of the series. More people think of the Daleks than of any of the Doctors or TARDIS when "Doctor Who" is mentioned.

Minor correction: Ken Perlin - http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/

While the first volume is a good book (haven't read the second) this is not a review. At most it's a summary. :-/

I kind of agree, but it is good that some attention might be brought to the issue (not necessarily the government's).

My concern is that the WH might once again raise the number of needed signatures for the next petitions! as there are still many reaching the target.

Yep. I was about to suggest the same.

I can remember names and faces, but many times I have trouble remembering the mappings between them.

I always imagined a world where some device would do the auto ID. Guess we're now living in the future. :)

But the intended use of a piece of software is not to replicate itself (unless it is a virus). While the intended use of any seed is obviously to grow and reproduce.

Hope the distinction is clear enough for the court. And this is a patent case, not a copyright one.

On the other hand, I do think that copyright law needs to be revised in the case of digital goods that can be trivially copied/duplicated.

Does anyone have pointers to a good comparison between puppet and chef?

It'd pretty interesting to also know why Amazon went with chef first.

How do beanstalk and opsworks relate to each other?

I agree. I did the same, but to less people.

It's just that I get this feeling that we're mostly preaching to the choir as most contacts (that would read it) already kind of know about these issues.

Still worth sharing, of course.

As mentioned in the article, "...even if Pirate Bay loses the case, it’s a victory for their cause.”

Too bad this news item doesn't get attention from a wider audience.

Amazingly detailed and layered!

I'd love to know more about how it was created. Too bad I don't speak Japanese to ask directly. :-/

In Brazil, a new law can be proposed by regular people if it gets one million signatures. While congress doesn't have to vote these proposals (they can basically postpone voting them forever), some of these have indeed become law.

The most recent one was proposed in 2009 and became law in 2010, changing the requirements to run for office (making them somewhat tougher on corruption).

PS: That law was nicknamed "Ficha Limpa". Something like "Clean Slate".

Re-print of this one from circa a year ago: http://swizec.com/blog/why-programmers-work-at-night/swizec/...

I've been thinking on and off about this since I read it then; and I mostly agree with it.

Except for the 'bright screens' cause. In my case, the same work pattern happens if I'm reading a deep (but not too abstract) book, writing on paper, or doing some hardware work.

Which I found quite interesting, as the book case kind of matches the 'sleepy brain' cause, and the hardware part happens more when I already have a plan and I'm just building with almost no stop (maker-type activity?).

Guess so. But I haven't tried it. I'll ask around.

They even shutdown many factories temporarily before the games. Guess many are back on.

Also, the city (an many others) grew a lot since 2008. Lots more traffic, heating, etc.

Not defending the government, but the problem has also grown bigger.